Guenter Grass
NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR ADMITS TO SERVING IN HITLER'S SS
German novelist Guenter Grass, best known for 1959's The Tin Drum, has admitted he served in the combat arm of Adolf Hitler's paramilitary forces during the Second World War, a German newspaper reported Friday.
Ref. https://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2006...1/grass-ss.html
So the question is, does this really make a difference regarding his work? Art, such as writing and painting, knows no philosophy or political preference. I say that the art of his writing stands alone, while his error of serving with the nazi party, an obviously horrible regime. I think he should be responsible for his crimes, but it may be to late for that now.